Whoopi Goldberg Lays Into Elon Musk For Criticizing Trump’s Bill

Musk called the bill a “disgusting abomination,” explaining that it will cause a massive increase in the already gigantic budget deficit. However, Goldberg doesn’t buy into it because of the “damage” he did.

Whoopi Goldberg also commented on Trump and Musk’s relationship dynamics, saying she thinks the president is still “scared” of Musk even after he left his role at the Department of Government Efficiency.

Goldberg has lashed out at Musk after he took to his social media platform X to unleash a scathing criticism of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

The actress accused Musk of “destroying people’s lives” via his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, as he spent the last six months conducting mass layoffs in the federal government.

The pointed remark came during a Hot Topics discussion on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” where Goldberg and her co-hosts dissected Musk’s rant against Trump’s bill.

“I do wonder why Elon thinks people are gonna listen to him again because he just spent several months destroying people’s lives,” Goldberg said, per Decider. “Now suddenly you woke up? You came out [of] your fog?”

Co-host Sunny Hostin took it a bit further to show just how much “damage” Musk caused, explaining that he was only able to slash “less than 1%” of the $7 trillion budget, despite his initial promises to cut it by $2 trillion.

“The damage that he did was just really incredible,” she continued. “He slashed 250,000 federal employees, more than 8,500 contracts, more than 10,000 grants, and his cutbacks on medical research — the foreign aid — cost 300,000 lives, mostly children. That’s the damage that Elon Musk did, so I don’t think that anyone should be listening to him about anything.”

Musk recently took to X to slam the bill, which was passed last month, labeling it a “disgusting abomination” as it threatens to increase the budget deficit.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X, per The Blast. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.”

“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” Musk noted, adding that the bill “will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.”

In a third post, the SpaceX boss decried how “Congress is making America bankrupt.”

Amid speculations suggesting Trump’s relationship with Musk has become strained, Goldberg and Joy Behar weighed in on their relationship dynamics, saying they think the billionaire politician is “scared” of the tech mogul as he’s yet to respond.

Invoking her newly-launched nickname for Trump, “Taco D,” Goldberg said: “Well, President Taco D has yet to respond. And I do wonder why Elon thinks people are going to listen now to him because he just spent several months destroying people’s lives.”

Behar then noted how Musk has high favorability with Trump supporters, saying the tech boss is “hurting Trump in a way.” Sara Haines then attempted to explain Musk’s reaction to the bill, saying he seemed to have hit a “flash point” and was now questioning the importance of all he’d done with DOGE.

The ladies took turns to share their reactions before Goldberg and Behar stated that Trump was “scared” of Musk.

“Elon knows the 411 on everything,” Goldberg said. “He knows how all this connects… So now suddenly, he’s like, ‘Harrumph!'”

“Trump should be afraid of him,” Behar noted. “He has the receipts on the election.”

“I think he is afraid of him,” Goldberg agreed.

Goldberg’s critique of Musk and Trump comes amid reports that ABC executives want her and the other co-hosts of “The View” to “tone down” their political commentary and focus more on pop culture sessions.

Sources close to the situation told The Daily Beast that the network’s top executives, including Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic, have expressed concern about the ladies’ constant focus on Trump and politics.

Karamehmedovic, in particular, reportedly held a meeting with “The View” executive producer Brian Teta and its hosts, where he encouraged them to focus more on their highly rated episodes, which feature celebrities.

Musk’s stance on the “One Big Beautiful” bill has allegedly strained his relationship with Trump amid reports he still owes the president $100 million out of the $300 million he committed to see him reelected.

According to The Wall Street Journal, he has paused the inflow of checks and was unhappy after learning of a meeting between Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who happens to be one of his most reviled enemies.

Musk previously shared how his role at DOGE was undermined by some of Trump’s officials, and how his efforts to reduce government spending were never taken seriously.

He has frequently clashed with key Trump appointees and was reportedly furious about the president’s plans to roll out extreme tariffs, which have caused endless chaos for the global economy.

However, Trump has maintained that his relationship with Musk is as healthy as ever.

“Elon is not really leaving,” he said during Musk’s send-off party last week. “He’s going to be back and forth.”